NORAD Warns Of EMP Attack

by JASmius



It's coming, folks.  Only question is how soon, and which enemy will carry it out:

The potential of a devastating attack to the U.S. power grid by nuclear states such as North Korea or Iran has prompted the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to return to its former location inside Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs, Colorado, two former Reagan-era government officials write in the Wall Street Journal.

"Why the return?" write Henry F. Cooper and Peter Vincent Pry. "Because the enormous bunker in the hollowed-out mountain, built to survive a Cold War-era nuclear conflict, can also resist an electromagnetic-pulse attack, or EMP."

While the Pentagon is moving to shield its global air defense command from being knocked out by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, the Obama administration has failed to act on urgent recommendations to protect the country's civilian electronic infrastructure from a similar catastrophe, they write.

"An EMP strike, most likely from the detonation of a nuclear weapon in space, would destroy unprotected military and civilian electronics nationwide, blacking out the electric grid and other critical infrastructure for months or years," Cooper and Pry write.

"The staggering human cost of such a catastrophic attack is not difficult to imagine."

Doesn't take a whole lot of imagination.  Just stop and consider how much of our lives comes out of those little wall outlets.  It goes far beyond being able to plug in your gadgets.  Your phones, whether cell or landline, would be dead, so you couldn't contact anybody if you needed help.  No Internet or radio or TV, so you can't find out what's going on.  No money beyond whatever cash and change you have on you or in your house.  No food or medicines, as trucks that transport supplies to grocery stores - which operate on a real-time system with no more than a day or two's groceries on their shelves - cannot be gassed up any more than you can your own vehicles.  You can see where it goes from there - if you want any of what's left in terms of these basic necessities, you have to steal them, and once supermarket shelves are looted bare, and then warehouses, the only other source is your neighbors.  Society starts breaking down.  Disease and starvation and civil unrest grow and run rampant.  Think Baltimore this week on a national scale times a hundred or more.

By some estimates, after an EMP attack on the continental United States, as much as 90% of the American population would be dead.

And our enemies are very well aware of it....:

In the Journal, Cooper and Pry reiterate that "Iran should be regarded as already having nuclear missiles capable of making an EMP attack against the U.S.," noting, "Iran and North Korea have successfully orbited satellites on South-Polar trajectories that appear to practice evading U.S. missile defenses, and at optimum altitudes to make a surprise EMP attack."

....and nobody in the White House or the rest of the Democrat Party seems to give a damn:

"Yet President Obama has not acted on the EMP Commission’s draft executive order to protect national infrastructure that is essential to provide for the common defense," Cooper and Pry write.  "Hardening the national electric grid would cost a few billion dollars, a trivial amount compared with the loss of electricity and lives following an EMP attack."

The authors also fault Congress for failing to act on the recommendations of its own commission and for dropping the ball on multiple bills to fund electronic infrastructure security upgrades.

"In recent years, the GRID Act, the Shield Act, and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act have gained bipartisan and even unanimous support in the House, yet they died in the Senate," they write.

Leaving us with the begged question: Why does the American Left want America to be destroyed in an EMP attack?  Are they such ideological zealots that they are willing to gamble on their dogmatic peacenik orthodoxy with the lives of three hundred million people?  Or are they as eager to see America destroyed as our enemies - their friends - are?

Either way, the scattered survivors of this looming Armageddon will see the election of Barack Obama as president of the late, great United States as the suicide pact it always was, and will soon become.